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ATLANTA (ABP) – Planners of Nov. 17-19 New Baptist Covenant gatherings were disappointed with attendance but pleased with the diversity and quality of presentations, one of the organizers said Nov. 21.

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SBC leader says churches not immune from ‘anti-child culture’

November 21, 2011

author: Administrator

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) – Richard Land, the Southern Baptist Convention’s top spokesman on moral concerns, says the Penn State sexual abuse scandal is symptomatic of a larger “anti-child culture” in the United States, and that churches are not immune.

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Churches need to take the lead, not lag behind society, in race relations, panelists insist

November 21, 2011

author: Administrator

Too often, churches have trailed society at large in terms of embracing racial and ethnic diversity, a multiethnic panel told a regional New Baptist Covenant II gathering in San Antonio.

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Speak up for justice & counter inequality, preachers tell Oklahoma City crowd

November 19, 2011

author: Administrator

The world’s brokenness calls out for Christians who will speak courageously on behalf of justice and fairness, a trio of pastors told participants at the New Baptist Covenant II satellite sessions in Oklahoma City.

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OKC New Baptist Covenant takes aim at payday lending

November 19, 2011

author: Administrator

Payday lending traps many of America’s working poor in a vortex of debt, participants at the New Baptist Covenant II satellite meeting in Oklahoma City learned.

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Cindy Elmore joins staff of Foundation as director of donor relations

November 19, 2011

author: Jennifer Harris

Cindy R. Elmore has joined the staff of the Virginia Baptist Foundation as director of donor relations. Elmore, a former development director for non-profits in Virginia, assumed her role in early October.

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NBC initiative is valuable but more to be done, says Philadelphia organizer

November 19, 2011

author: Vicki Brown

Initiatives such at the New Baptist Covenant II help lower racial barriers, but there is “still a lot of work to do,” said a south Philadelphia pastor who helped organize a satellite viewing of the three-day event. “I’ve said to many folk that one of

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Despite low turnout, D.C. organizers bring NBCII to nation’s capital

November 18, 2011

author: Jennifer Harris

Though turnout was low for the satellite viewing of the New Baptist Covenant II in the nation’s capital, organizers of the event prepared carefully with a huge screen dominating the platform area of Israel Baptist Church in the District of Columbia’s northeast sector.

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Jimmy Carter notes progress in building Baptist unity

November 18, 2011

author: Administrator

ATLANTA (ABP) – Former President Jimmy Carter told veteran journalist Bob Abernethy that he’s seen progress in areas that prompted him to convene a New Baptist Covenant gathering in 2008 and New Baptist Covenant II gatherings scattered across nine locations linked by satellite TV Nov.

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Low attendance disappoints New Baptist Covenant planners

SBC leader says churches not immune from ‘anti-child culture’

Churches need to take the lead, not lag behind society, in race relations, panelists insist

Speak up for justice & counter inequality, preachers tell Oklahoma City crowd

OKC New Baptist Covenant takes aim at payday lending

Cindy Elmore joins staff of Foundation as director of donor relations

NBC initiative is valuable but more to be done, says Philadelphia organizer

Despite low turnout, D.C. organizers bring NBCII to nation’s capital

Jimmy Carter notes progress in building Baptist unity

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